Jiro watched in boredom as the chunin exams began. The exams were being held individually within the ninja villages so his only compet.i.tors were fellow ninja. That being said, Jiro knew that it would be easy to destroy the compet.i.tion as Jiraiya and Orochimaru were already overly prepared as they regularly took on C or B rank missions and Jiro easily kept up with them indicating that he was also already at the skill level of a chunin.The head instructor of the exam explained the first part of the exam. The teams of three would be separated into individuals and each person taking the exam would be given a random scenario. The person would try to solve it to the best of their ability while being limited by set conditions given in the scenario. The instructor did not explicitly say that cheating was alright, but he did say that cheaters who were caught would be eliminated from the exam.
Some people started writing right away while others did not. Jiro was not some sort of tactical genius and his scenario looked especially difficult to solve so he activated his sharingan and started to copy the answers of what the people were writing. He would copy down a line or two and see if it had matched up with his scenario. So far, none were a match, but Jiro was confident that he would be able to find a person who had the same scenario as he did.
Jiro heard a faint hiss and croak behind him. He dropped down his left hand and made it seem like he was scratching an itch, but he stretched out his hand. Jiro received two scrolls and he traced across them with his fingers to read it. One scroll was the copied scenarios of Jiraiya while Orochimaru simply stated that he finished so anyone could ask him for help. Jiro waited until a student got kicked out of the exams for being caught cheating before he used his left hand to write his answer on the other side of both scrolls. Jiro wrote to Orochimaru that he was good while he wrote for Jiraiya to wait for an answer.
Jiro continued to copy the answers of others. However, he made sure to give himself a pause every once in a while to seem somewhat realistic. He had also made sure that his chakra was permeated all around him in case he had to activate a Genjutsu to make it seem like he was doing something else. When he finally found a match, Jiro continued to copy the answer of the ninja way up at the front. Unfortunately, he was only able to copy around the last half of the answer so Jiro had to start brainstorming what the first part might be.
After Jiro finished off his answer, he heard a faint croak behind him. Jiro then bent down to feign picking up his pencil he dropped on purpose in order to give the scroll of his copied answer to Jiraiya"s toad, but the toad was carrying a scroll. Jiro bent down and feigned being finished because one of the instructors was looking in his general direction. While waiting for him to look away. Jiro put his left hand out and received the scroll from Jiraiya stating that he was good.
Knowing that he and his teammates were done now, Jiro spent the rest of the time waiting for the exam to end. When the bell rang indicating that the exams were over, Jiro got up and walked out of the testing room. He met up with his teammates who were confident that they answered correctly on their part. They discussed how they obtained their answers and Orochimaru revealed that he summoned his snakes which he could use to spy on other genin.
Orochimaru could communicate with his snakes so this method worked for him, but Jiraiya could not communicate with his toads so he had to use a different method to obtain answers. Jiraiya had acted like he was perversely staring at one of the chunin instructors when in reality he was staring at the answer of a genin in front of him. Jiraiya"s rather infamous reputation as a pervert had served as his shield during the exam.
The results came in immediately after everyone exited the room. The first part of the exam ended with many students failing the first part. Although not many genin were knocked out of the group of fifty or so candidates for chunin from being caught cheating, many did not pa.s.s because they failed to answer the scenario adequately.
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Jiro, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya were sitting at a table that served dango. Jiro was stuffing his face with the sugary delights while Orochimaru had a steaming cup of tea in front of him They were both talking about potential ninjutsu. Jiraiya was trying to flirt with the waitress, but he was failing miserably as she just gently rebuffed him each time. Jiraiya gave up and joined the conversation going on between Orochimaru and Jiro.
They were all waiting for Tsunade who had been taking her chunin exams since the morning. The way medic ninja gained the rank of chunin was slightly different from regular ninja. For a medic ninja to become chunin, they had to take a rigorous test that covered all of the basics. They had to have proficiency in chakra scalpels and the Mystical Palm Technique. Lastly, the genin had to have at least two hundred hours of helping out at the hospital.
The boys continued what they were doing as Tsunade finally walked into the restaurant and collapsed down next to Jiraiya. She had heavy bags under her eyes and exhaustion seemed to be emanating off of her. Jiraiya was shocked that she collapsed next to him and he was about to take the opportunity to talk to her, but snores soon echoed throughout the building as Tsunade slept.
Jiraiya closed his mouth, but it dropped down as soon as he saw the glorious view of her cleavage. Temptation was knocking on Jiraiya"s door, but Jiraiya wanted to gain the friendship he once had with Tsunade so he ignored the valley of the G.o.ds and picked her up on his back.
Jiro and Orochimaru were discussing something about jutsus and researching them so Jiraiya began to walk back to the compound of the Senju. When Jiraiya left the building, Jiro and Orochimaru got up to slowly walk after him. Even though they had fun discussing jutsus and their potential, they both knew that they had to discuss with Jiraiya for the second part of the exams.